Sunday, November 4, 2007
turquoise flowers necklace
Sunday, July 8, 2007
some jewelry that I kept
This second necklace with matching earrings (I like to wear earrings that look like they were meant to go with my necklace!) is also a teal color palette, but with gold animal-print highlights on some of the glass beads. These gemstone chips are also apatite. I love the way the wavy gold-filled links make this necklace look like it's almost floating when you wear it.
I was wearing the jewelry in the first picture while making the set in the second picture. I love the way those earrings hang, so I made these earrings similar! I've used teal niobium ear wires, because the color works with these beads, and it's easy on my metal-sensitive earlobes.
I posed both pictures with the necklace in a big circle, but both are very flexible. I am careful about how beads are used in necklaces, so that my necklaces hang in a nice shape, never stiff. I also always use high quality flexible multistrand beading wire, that's stainless steel inside with a plastic coating to protect the beads and gems.